As the federal government gets back on track, Patrick McHugh, Senior Public Policy Analyst with the NC Budget & Tax Center, discusses lessons learned from the longest government shutdown in our history.

Keith Poston of the Public School Forum discusses the erosion of North Carolina’s commitment to public school and the Top 10 Education Issues for 2019.

Same-sex couples in North Carolina won the freedom to marry in 2014, but LGBTQ people continue to be denied equal protection under the law in many other areas of life. North Carolina is currently the only state in the nation that prevents those in same-sex relationships from accessing protective orders for domestic violence. The ACLU of North Carolina is challenging that unequal policy in court on behalf of a survivor of domestic violence who was denied a protective order because the person who made violent threats against her was a woman. ACLU legal director Chris Brook discusses the need to end discrimination in NC’s domestic violence law, and the latest on the continuing cost of HB2/HB142.